Senior Manager, Competitive intelligence and Strategic Insights Global Risk Solutions

Liberty Mutual Insurance • Boston, MA

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About The Position

When you enter a position at Liberty Mutual Insurance, you'll find the same dynamic environment and challenges as within other organizations. Yet you'll find something more: an opportunity to apply your analytic and technical skills to a company renowned for its integrity and focus on developing its employees' careers.
Global Risk Solutions (GRS) is Liberty Mutual’s leading global commercial and specialty (re)insurer, recognized for its value-driven brand, product and geographic breadth, and commitment to working with clients and partners to help solve their evolving risk needs. With ~$25B in gross written premium, operations in 26 countries, and ~15,000 employees worldwide, GRS offers the reputation and strength of a global leader and the long-term, client- and partner-oriented mindset of a mutual company.
The Senior Manager, Competitive Intelligence leads and evolves GRS’s competitive intelligence capability, delivering forward looking, decision relevant insights that inform strategy, underwriting priorities, capital allocation, and leadership discussions.
This role is part of the GRS Strategy department and plays a central role in supporting senior leadership, underwriting, distribution and actuarial with high impact competitive and strategic market intelligence. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring strong analytical judgment, deep insurance market understanding, and the ability to translate complex competitive signals into clear strategic implications.
We seek an individual with the desire to work in a collaborative, high-performance, and high-visibility culture, capable of working cross-functionally throughout the organization. This role requires an understanding of the competitive landscape in the commercial and specialty insurance space, broad strategic thinking, leadership experience, and the ability to effectively communicate with GRS leadership.
This role is ideal for those who want to:
Lead a modern competitive intelligence function embedded within the GRS strategy department
Shape how senior leaders understand competitor behavior, market structure, and emerging risks
Work at the intersection of strategy, underwriting, capital markets, and GenAI enabled analytics
Develop and mentor high performing analysts while remaining closely involved in content creation
Build a career path that opens into broader strategy, M&A, underwriting or enterprise leadership roles

Requirements

• Bachelor`s degree (Finance or Accounting). CPA or advanced degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of finance experience.
• Must demonstrate ability to execute thoroughly in a fast-paced work environment, adapting quickly to changing conditions to achieve results.
• Must possess the ability to collaborate with peers across the organization to gain support for ideas and execute on projects that deliver value to customers.
• Comfortable leading meetings, making strategic recommendations to senior management and giving presentations to increasingly large audiences.
• Advanced understanding of Finance Tools and Analytical Methods.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, marketing, operations, finance, or another related field; MBA or other relevant advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant general business experience, to include experience with competitive intelligence, financial benchmarking, strategy, consulting, corporate development, project management or related roles.
• Demonstrated understanding of the commercial and specialty (re)insurer market, potentially showcased by professional designations such as CPCU, ARM, ARe, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex information and communicate insights clearly to senior audiences.
• Proven experience leading teams and managing multiple high priority workstreams.
• Strong knowledge of project management principles and the ability to manage all aspects of the project management life cycle; proficiency with related tools.
• High degree of reliability and integrity. Must also be driven and flexible enough to succeed in ambiguous and less structured situations.
• Travel required up to 10%, which may include both U.S. and international travel.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of high impact competitive intelligence deliverables distributed to thousands of colleagues across Liberty Mutual, including competitor earnings insights, financial benchmarking, market assessments, and early signal monitoring
• Coordinate the development of all external investor relations related content on behalf of the Global Risk Solutions (GRS) division (e.g., credit ratings agencies, earnings call preparation and Investor Day content) to communicate GRS strategic direction and financial performance
• Translate competitive and market signals into forward looking analyses that anticipate shifts before they materialize with clear strategic implications for underwriting appetite, portfolio positioning, growth priorities, and capital deployment.
• Actively contribute to the GRS strategic dialogue, including independently managing strategic projects with business-wide impact (e.g., strategically important and/or technical in nature).
• Serve as a trusted advisor to GRS senior leadership, contributing competitive context to leadership meetings, board materials, investor related discussions, and long term planning forums.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of competitive intelligence professionals; set clear performance objectives and foster a culture of analytical rigor and strategic thinking.
• Oversee prioritization of work toward the highest-value deliverables, including defining project objectives, scope, timing, and resourcing.
• Plan activities and tasks to deliver desired project outcomes and oversee day-to-day execution and progress tracking.
• Identify opportunities to improve data sources, tools, processes, and storytelling approaches to enhance insight quality and speed.

Benefits

• At Liberty Mutual, our goal is to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, supported, and can thrive.
• We build an environment that welcomes a wide range of perspectives and experiences, with inclusion embedded in every aspect of our culture and reflected in everyday interactions.
• This comes to life through comprehensive benefits, workplace flexibility, professional development opportunities, and a host of opportunities provided through our Employee Resource Groups.
• Each employee plays a role in creating our inclusive culture, which supports every individual to do their best work.
• Together, we cultivate a community where everyone can make a meaningful impact for our business, our customers, and the communities we serve.
• We value your hard work, integrity and commitment to make things better, and we put people first by offering you benefits that support your life and well-being.
• To learn more about our benefit offerings please visit: https://LMI.co/Benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees